Russian investigators on May 8 charged a man suspected of carrying out a car bombing that wounded a prominent Russian nationalist writer with terrorist offenses. The writer, Zakhar Prilepin, an ardent supporter of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, broke both legs in the May 6 attack. His close associate, who was in the car with him, was killed. Aleksandr Permyakov was charged with committing a terrorist act and illegally handling explosives, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement. A court in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region remanded him in custody for two months.
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